Auto safety device



Feb. 2U, 1923.

- v 1,445,75m G. F. CAREY.

4mm. SAFE TY DEVICE. FILED JUNE 1| I921;

INVENTOR enonen r. canny,

OF NEW YORK, Ihl.

Application. filed June 1,

To all whom. it may concern:

lie it known that l, Gnoncn F. Canny, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Auto Safety illevices, of which the following is a specilica tion.

This invention has relation to protective. devices for automobiles, andhas for an object to provide a device adapted to be ap plied to the vehicle wheel and to project beyond the tire so to form an obstruction to the rotation of the wheel which will cause the automobile to rise and fall during its travel, thus indicating to observers by its erratic course that it is being; operated by unauthorized persons.

.Another object of the invention is to provide a device of this character with improvements by virtue of which the device may be applied to tires of venous diameters and sizes by adjusting the parts relatively.

In addition to the foregoing this invention comprehends improvements in the details of construction and arrangement of parts, to

be. hereinafter set forth and particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings in which similar and corresponding parts are designated by the same characters of reference, throughout theseveral views in which they appear,

Figure l is a view in side elevation of my improved device applied to a wheel.

Figure 2 is a view of the tire in cross section showing the application of the device,

the latter being shown in front elevation;

that the extensions may overlap and thus connect the aws for movement in the same plane. A bolt, rivet or the like 13 connects the extensions as shown. The free end of each jaw formed with a groove 14: in one face to receive one end of an extension. of

which a pair are provided as shown at 1.5

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and 16. Each extension has an opening for a bolt 17 to enter. said bolt also enteringone of a 'ilurality of openings 18 formed in the free terminal of each jaw. A nut 19 is applied to the projecting}; end of each bolt and guard flanges Eli) are formed upon the inner faces of the jaws to prevent access to these nuts when the device is applied to a tire. The opposite end of each extension 15 and 1.6 is bent at right angles and said bent portions directed toward each other. tiaid ends are each provided with an upstanding' flange 21 and each of said flanges 21 are formed with a flange 22 the latter being formed at opposite edges of the flanges 21 so that said flanges 522 may overlap in spaced relation when the ends of the extensions are brought toward ea ch other. ldaid flanges 21 and 22 of both extensions thus form a rectangular recess. lilach flange 22 isfcrmed with a series of ()llGIllIlgfS 23. the series of one flange being displaced. vertically relative to those of the other flange. pair of bolts 2.4.- are proided, one being; inserted in an opening o'l one flange and the other inv a correspond ingly placed opening; of the other flange. The bolts will thus be contiguous. Cotter pins?!) may be inserted in the bolts to prevent their withdrawal. Alock of conventional type is now employed. preferably of the padlock type, as shown at The shackle 27 is embraced. about both o f the bolts 24; and the jaws will thus be locked against separation.

ln practise the jaws are encompassed about a tire casing! as shown in Figure 2 and the outer ends of the GXLGDSlOllS 15 and 16 locked together in the manner stated. With the portions 12 extending radially from the tire casing it will be seen that an obstruction is provided which will interfere with the orderly progression of the vehicle resulting in a loss of speed and, probably some slight damage which will not destroy the vehicle but only render it temporarily useless. It will be noted that by means of this construction the device may be altered to embrace tires of anions cross sectional diameters. since the extensions 15 and 16 may be moved rurtward thus lengthening the jaws, and the bolts 94!; may be reset to permit the extensions to be locked in a more widely separated relation.

While I have :ilhistrated and described my invention with some degree of particularity I realize that in practise various alterations therein may be made. I therefore reserve the right and privilege oi changing the form of the details of construction or otherwise changing the arrangement oi"? the correlated parts, without departing from the spirit of the invention or the scope of the appended I claims.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Unied States Letters Patent is:

. 1. A protective device inelnding 2L pair of 1a \vs to encircle a tire casing, int 'rel overjaws piv'oted together for relative nioven'ient,

an extension for each jaw adjnstahly connected tireneto e liengge on each extension \vhereh szaid flanges are in overlapping and spaced relation when the extensions are brought together. a bolt mounted in each flange, end 21 loch to embrace hot-h holts to lock the extensions together.

A protective device includinga pair of jznvs pivoted together for relative movement, the ngper free ends of said jaws having vertical grooves-1 therein, :nljnstahle extensions infovided with apertures therethrongh seated said sgrooves. inwardly disposed overlap pin flanges :lorined with inch extension. continnons bolts extending tlll' )ll;]jll apextnre in the overlapping flanges, 22nd lorhvans c mperatine with said flanges peron); lateral, znljnstnient ot the jaws. in testimony whereof l; a illX nrv si n:din' 

